Susan Sarandon in trouble for calling Pope Benedict XVI a 'Nazi'

View full size(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Actress Susan Sarandon cheers her team during a promotional table tennis event Saturday June 25, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

A Fox News report says that Actress Susan Sarandon called German pontiff Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi during a discussion session at the Hamptons Film Festival over the weekend.

Sarandon won an Academy Award for her role in the 1995 anti-death penalty film "Dead Man Walking.” She had sent a copy of the book on which the movie is based to the Pope John Paul II.

"The last one. Not this Nazi one we have now," she told Newsday Saturday in an onstage interview at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

According to the article, the crowd "didn't seem bothered" by Sarandon's words, and the discussion ended with the majority of the crowd praising her for everything from her work with UNICEF to her staunch support of Occupy Wall Street.

The Catholic League of America is upset with Sarandon for her "obscene" words.

“Susan Sarandon’s ignorance is willful: those who have hatred in their veins are not interested in the truth. The fact is that Joseph Ratzinger (the Pope) was conscripted at the age of 14 into the Hitler Youth, along with every other young German boy. Unlike most of the other teenagers, Ratzinger refused to go to meetings, bringing economic hardship to his family. Moreover, unlike most of the others, he deserted at the first opportunity,” the league’s President William Donohue said in a statement. “Sarandon’s comment is obscene. Sadly, it’s what we’ve come to expect from her.”

Political commentator and film critic Michael Medved was also dismayed by the Nazi accusation.

"Could Susan Sarandon be following a classic rule of public relations: When the world is increasingly ignoring you, try attacking the Pope? Why should anyone care what a fading Hollywood actress has to say about one of the most influential thinkers and religious leaders in the world?" Medved told Fox411.com. "Her denigration of Pope Benedict is particularly regrettable in light of this German pope's moving and eloquent efforts to come to terms the horrors of the Holocaust."